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A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.

Profiles four residents of the Brockville Mental Health Centre, a forensic psychiatric hospital for people who have committed violent crimes.

In 1965, 21-year-old Torontonian, Paul Saltzman drove to Mississippi, volunteering as a civil rights worker with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He was arrested, spending 10 days in jail. He smuggled letters out of jail to the Toronto Star. Canadian Foreign Affairs requested his release but Saltzman declined. Posted to one of the toughest segregationist towns, Greenwood, he helped disadvantaged sharecroppers register to vote. He was assaulted by a young Klansman. In 2007, Saltzman returned to find the KKK member who had punched him in the head, to explore if individual reconciliation was possible. He found him and a 5 year dialogue has ensued. His assailant was, Byron de la Beckwith Jr., whose father, Byron de la Beckwith Sr. murdered NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers.

A look at the extraordinary world of Penthouse founder, visionary and provocateur Bob Guccione.

Seldom has Egypt's capital been so evocatively captured. A fly-on-the-wall doc exploring the mysterious and hard-knock reality of a typical Egyptian belly dancer clan in working-class Cairo. Unparalleled access to this hidden world leaves the viewer fascinated and surprised that at night they dance. - Such frankness among Arabic women is all too rare in film... - Variety

A cinematic documentary that illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world.

The Radio Canada International shortwave towers stood sentinel on the marsh for 70 years. Erected in WW2, they broadcast around the globe. People who lived nearby dreamed in foreign languages and heard strange sounds from unlikely places.

Artist and designer Yolanda Sonnabend resides in decaying splendor in the last un-renovated house in a posh suburb of London. Surrounded by fifty years of painting, sculpture, frames, fabric, books, the archeologia and the ephemera of her frenzied imagination, Yolanda says "I'm a prisoner of rubbish". Meanwhile, her older brother has moved in with his grand piano. The esteemed New York AIDS physician, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, has returned reluctantly to a country he has little affection for, a house he hates and a sister with whom he feels he has nothing in common. Into this heady mix, filmmaker Thomas Burstyn arrives to make a documentary about Yolanda and Joseph, his aunt and uncle. But as Thomas discovers, the camera does not always tell the truth. He finds himself confronted with his own difficult past. After a lifetime of misunderstanding, must he reconcile with his own estranged brother?